Storage apparatus.



Patented Feb 26, I90I C. PIEZ & R. H. BEAUMONT..

STORAGE APPARATUS.

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No. 668,960. Patented Feb. 26, |90I.

C. PIEZ &. R. H. BEAUMONT. STORAGE APPARATUS.

(Application led Oct. 1B, 1899.

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STORAGE APPARATUS.

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CHARLES PIEZ AND ROBERT H. BEAUMONT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA, ASSIGNORS TO THE DODGE COAL STORAGE COMPANY, OF NAU- GATUCK, CONNECTICUT.

STORAGE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,960, dated February 26, 1901.

Application iiled October 18, 1899. Serial No. 733,993. (No model.)

T a/ZZ whom, it' may concern:

Beit known that we, CHARLES PIEZ and ROBERT H. BEAUMONT, citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Storage Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in mechanism for piling coal and anal- Io `ogous material and for removing material from a pile.

The object of our invention is to provide a comparatively cheap structure which will pile material in a semicircular or circular pile t5 from a fixed point and remove material from the pile to a fixed point. This object we accomplish by so constructing the apparatus that the conveyer mounted on a pivoted structure can pass through the pivot of said struczo ture and receive material at a Xed point,

the elevating and conveying mechanism being carried solely by the movable section.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a side view sufficiently in detail of our im- 2 5 proved mechanism to illustrate our invention, showing an endless elevator and conveyer having combined buckets and Scrapers. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3, Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a view similar to 3o Fig. l, showing a modication in which a bucket elevator and conveyer of the clamshell type is used. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the device shown in Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a View of a modification.

Referring in the first instance to'Fig. l, A is a liked structure mounted on a suitable foundation and on which is mounted the pivoted structure B. This structure is in the form of a truss in the present instance and 4o may be of any length, according to the size of the pile desired. The truss structure is supported at its outer end by a leg B', mounted on the carriage B2, in the present instance traveling on a semicircular track.

ln Fig. l we have shown a hopper D directly under the fixed structure, and on each side of the fixed structure are tracks d d for the cars. The hopper extends under the tracks, so that material discharged from the 5o cars flows into the hopper.

The fixed structure A has an open center, so as to allow for the free travel of the elevating mechanism through the center of the structure, and the pivot b, by which the truss structure B is swung on the fixed structure, g5 hasalso an open center, as it will be understood on referring to the drawings that the elevator passes up through the pivot.

The conveyer G, as shown in Fig. l, is of the combined bucket-and-ight type, being 6o an endless conveyer driven by an engine, preferably carried by the pivoted structure. The endless elevator and conveyer G passes around wheels g g at the pivot-point of the elevator and around a foot-wheel g Within the hopper D and around a Wheel g2 at the end of the truss structure.

Directly under the two horizontal runs of the conveyer are troughs h h', and the material is pushed along the trough-71l by the buck- 7o ets to the point of discharge. The trough 71, can have a series of gates or shutters at given distances apart, so as to make the pile of a Width equal to the length of the truss structure, or a movable ribbon may be used or any 75 device which will allow the material to be progressively discharged from the conveying` apparatus and piled. In some instances the bottom of the trough may be opened and the material of the pile itself used as the bottom 8o over which other material is conveyed.

Directly under the lower run of the endless conveyer is a trough h', and this trough extends to a hopper H, into which the material is carried to the pile.

Any suitable mechanism may be used for loading the trough. In the present instance we have shown a scraping-bucket l, hung from a rope or chain f1), which passes around wheels c' on a trolley l and to a suitable 9o power-drum, so that the bucketl will scrape the material from the pile,and thus be loaded, and will discharge the material into the lower trough through a chute, Fig. 3, and the material when in this trough will be pushed forward by the buckets to the hopper H. The trolley can be moved along the truss structure B by any suitable means common to this style of trolley.

The truss structure can be turned on its roo A.Sie

pivot b in any suitable manner, either by hand or power. An engine can be mounted upon the Carriage B2 and geared .to the axles of the carriage, if desired.

It will thus be seen that we only use one mechanism for both elevating and conveying the material, and we carry the said mechanism by the pivoted section of the structure, making a very simple and practical apparatus.

In the above-described apparatus the loading is continuous; but it will be understood that an intermittent elevator and conveyer may be used, such as that shown in Figs'. l`

and 5.

It will be seen in referring; to Fig. 5 that by our construction of piling apparatus we are enabled to pile coal on each side of a railroad-track, the fixed structure being preferably mounted between the tracks where double tracks are used and with a hopper common to both tracks. The pivoted truss structure is arranged to rotate on this fixed structure and travel on a circular track, so that two segmental piles maybe formed, one on each side of the track. By this method of piling it will be seen that two grades of material-such, for instance, as coal-can be piled with one apparatus, and if the tracks are so situated that the structure can only pile on one side of the track this can be accom-plished with an apparatus such as designed by us.

In discharging material from the pile we preferably discharge directly into the cars, and in some instances the cars can be run through the fixed structure directly under the center of the pivot.

A hopper is not absolutely essential in carrying ont our invention, although preferable, as in some instances the material may be fed directly into the boot of the conveyer, Fig. l, dispensing with the hopper.

Referring to Fig. 5, we have illustrated elevating and conveying mechanism consisting of a series of ropes or chains e, passing around pulleys c e2 and around pulleys c3 on the trolley E and down and around the wheels e4 on a clam-shell bucket E', which is opened and closed in a manner common to this class of buckets. The ropes pass around the drivingwheel of an engine F, preferably mounted on the` pivoted truss structure, and the position ot the bucket is regulated by the operator stationed near the engine, so that if it is wished to pile material in a pile under the truss structure the operator so controls the mechanismthat the clam-shell bucket E will be lowered through the open pivot of the pivoted structure and through the center of the fixed structure into the hopper D and will take a load of material from the hopper, elevateit to a point above the fixed structure, and will then carry it forward along the pivoted structure to a point at which it is desired to discharge the material. This material can be either discharged from the bucket at a point near the structure or, if it is fragile material, the bucket can be lowered and discharged at any point from the ground or piling-floor, after which it can be returned to the pivot-point, lowered, and again loaded.

It will be understood that the pivot h may be arranged directly under the pivoted structure, as shown in Fig. l, or some distance below it, as shown in Fig. 5. In this case it is essential to allow space between the bottom of the truss and the pivot for the bucket to be carried out onto the movable structure or it may be at the base, as shown in Fig. 6, in which case the fixed truss structure is dispensed with and the base will form a fixed structure.

Thus it will -befseen by referring tothe drawings that we provide an open yfixed structure and a movable structure ivoted to the fixed structure, the pivot having an open center for the passage of the elevating` and conveylng mechanism, which can receive 'material at a fixed point and carry the said material up through the fixed structure and through the lopen pivot and carry it along the pivoted structure to a discharge-point, so as to form a pile under the pivoted structure. The materia-l can be removed from the pile by ele- Vating it from the pile to the pivoted structure, carrying it along the pivoted structure to the fixed structure,and discharging it either into the hopper, as Ishown in Fig. l, or directly into lthe cars.

The structure illustrated in Fig. 5 forms the subject of a divisionalapplication of this case, filed on the lstiday of December, 1900,-

Serial No.` 41,639.

We claim as vour invention 1. The combination of a fixed st-ructure, a pivoted structure arranged to swing thereon, the said pivot having an open center, and elevating and conveying mechanism on said pivoted structure, said mechanism arranged to elevate material through the open center of the pivot, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a fixed structure having an open center, a movable structure pivoted to the fixed structure, and elevating and conveying mechanism on said movable structu re, the elevating mechanism arranged to elevat'e material through the fixed structure and through the pivot of the movable structure, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a lixed structure, a pivoted structure arranged to swing thereon, said pivot having an open center, and an endless convey-er passing along said pivoted structure through the pivot of the saine and down through the fixed structure, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a fixed structure, having an open center, a movable structure arranged to swing thereon and having an open pivot, and elevating and conveying mechanism for carrying material continuously for- IOO IIO

Ward through the lixed structure, through the open pivot and along the movable structure, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a fixed structure, having an open center, a movable structure arranged to swing on the fixed structure and having an open pivot and having two troughs, an endless conveyer mounted on the movable structure and arranged to travel on said troughs, said conveyer passing through the open pivot and the fixed structu re, and means for loading the buckets of the conveyer at the fixed structure, substantially as described.

6. The combination in storage apparatus, of a fixed structure having an open center, a movable structure pivoted thereto, said pivot having an open center, tv'vo conveyentroughs carried by the movable structure, a bucket names to this specification in the presence of 3o two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES PIEZ. ROBERT H. BEAUMONT. Vituesses:

WILL. A. BARR, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

